Re: Syncrepl nits with operational attributes (ITS#3289)

[lukeh@PADL.COM]

>For the moment you can just explicitly list 
>creatorsName/CreateTimeStamp/etc in the syncrepl attrs, and omit 
>anything else.

Yes, that seems to be the sensible option for now, i.e.:

	attrs="*,creatorsName,createTimestamp,modifiersName,modifyTimestamp"

>Perhaps we need to add a "attrs=!foo" config syntax to strip certain 
>attributes from the incoming records. I don't really like this approach 
>because it requires too much manual intervention.

Agreed.

>Maybe better would be for syncrepl to have a hardcoded list of 
>attributes that it ignores - e.g., all values that we know are 
>dynamically generated (like hasSubordinates) and all values that are 
>DSA-specific (e.g. subschemaSubentry), so that attrs=*,+ will work 
>without hassles.

Another approach that we use is to not return computed (dynamic)
operational attributes if the sync control is present. But I also
think that you do not want dynamic attributes to in any case be
printed to disk.

-- Luke